I’ve seen lots of crazy snow storms on the news these past few years. The famous one in my area is “The blizzard of 79.” I was only 5 at the time so I don’t remember it as well as my dad does. There are a few vivid memories that have survived. When our driveway was shoveled out the snow was taller than the car. It was carved out like a trench and it reminded me of the death star. The tallest pile of snow was right in front of our front door. I climbed up on top of it and I could see onto the roof of the house. I walked around for a bit and then suddenly sank into the snow up to my shoulders and couldn’t move. Luckily my dad was right there and pulled me out.

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I LOVE the title!
We don’t get too much snow here, and I’m not old enough to remember any cool blizzards. I went up to the mountains with my girlscout troop (I was 9) and I spent my time digging out a snow cave in a drift. I had made it big enough for two people two curl up really tightly inside, but this idiotic girl (whom I still hate) Jumped on it and made it go away.

I’m super claustrophobic, I would be frozen solid in more ways than one in Biff’s position.

I’ve heard lots of stories about people with snow up to their roofs, I’m really jealous. I love snow, but I’ve never gotten a ridiculous amount like that. But man… falling up to your shoulders in snow? I would have been so scared, just hearing about that makes me shiver!

Southern Arizona doesn’t get much (any) snow, so I can thankfully say I’ve never had to deal with snowstorms. Snowed once on ground level last year, though… wasn’t more than a couple of inches, but everyone was pretty much confused. Funny stuff.

at the school i’m going to, the rooms are numbered, and since i’ve discovered that there’s a room 404 i’ve wanted to have a computer science class there. that way, if i ever wanted to not go to that class, i’d have an amusing excuse.

the obligatory file not found joke huh?
tied to the comic alittle, too.
only you could pull off a joke so hackneyed by the internet with style, chris
welp, you and biff have survived long enough to get to do that
i can’t say that about my former webcomic (201, then computer got anihilated)
i hope you end up with a millenial comic, to be honest

I remember the blizard of ’79 quite well – I guess that makes me about 10 years older than you, Chris. I grew up in California, Colorado, and Maryland, so I had some points of comparison, and that storm in Maryland was pretty astonishing, even by Colorado standards.

’84 at the Navy Base in North Chicago was another deep winter. No one massive storm, but a series of strong storms, and the path to the galley was a trench – Shoulder deep on a tall man. There were still piles of snow on the ground into June ’85.

Winter of ’94 in Philadelphia was another bad one. The Schuylkill froze solid (thanks to Public Works dumping megatons of snow into it), and the ice dam made south Philly flood in the middle of the winter.

I was only 2 during the blizzard of ’79… I have lots of pictures of me and my brothers that consist of only a single pompom (from our hats) with my dad in the background frantically trying to get to us so he could pull us out.
The look on his face is priceless… a mix of unadulterated panic and raucous laughter. At least he went to help us (Thanks for not going for the camera first, Mom… sheesh).

I live in Arizona but I come from Michigan. The exact same thing happened to me when I was 5. The only difference was no one was there to pull me out for a couple minutes. 🙁 Also, it took me a minute to get the title. I’m thinking, “I guess ‘Not Found’ has to do with being lost in snow.” Then I thought about it and laughed as I copied Kiwi’s facepalm.

We’ve never got that much snow. Maybe a foot or two at the most. Fun, if cold. I wish we could get that much snow you got though. I’d dig out a little road and get my sister lost in there. Good thing your dad was there to save you.

I don’t know if you somehow sabotaged your server so it would take 20 times as long to load, but given the title joke I’ll forgive you if you did. (It is perhaps more likely that my interweb is just being slow, but I found the situation ironic.)

Wisconsin here. I doubt we’ve had any notable blizzards in my lifetime, but I do remember the snow being taller than me when I was barely six feet and still having to go to school. In fact, I can’t believe we had classes canceled this year after the ice storm. This is the first time I had a snow day in years! I think it’s only the second time I’ve had a snow day in my five years of college.

Bwahahah. Me likes the title. =D I wish I had that much snow, but I live in Toronto, which is like pretend Canada. Recently we had a storm that gave us a foot or two (I’m bad at measurement), which was pretty cool and also made it a complete hassle to get anywhere. And my school board will never call a snow day. Ever. So I took the day off anyway. *shrug*

Yeah, I live in the great north of Edmonton. It doesn’t do anything but snow here. By November, there is at least a foot of snow on the ground, at least. I can’t even remember the most snow I’ve seen, but it will have been at least five feet… I think.

I also just got my book and T-shirt the other day! I was so exited, and I kept the packadging as well, just because it was hand written! Now I can look at it and know that is was written by the Great Chris Hallbeck!

To get to his work he will need a flaming hammer XD
Here at my place it snowed once in july and it was historical.
My grandparents weren’t born when it snowed last time before…
Now it was TWO WHOLE INCHES of pure white snow in some places hahaha
I envy Biff in some way =)

i live in in south florida so i never get snow.EVER
my dad took me to minisota once though and because i live hear i didnt know to wear gloves and gotfrost bite on boath of my hands.
kept all my filgers luckly

Toronto never gets enough snow, dood. I mean, it’s enough (I guess) when it does get here, but it only takes a bit of heat or a little rain (like today) to wash it all away. =( I suppose you’d have to go further north to get *real* snow, although at that point it’d probably get to be more and more of a hassle, I’m sure. I don’t have the memory to remember ’99, or really much of anything. *shrug* Ah well. I’m sure it was amazing. =D

here in new hampshire, we’ve all been warned to shovel off our roofs lest they collapse under the weight of the two or three (i forget) huge storms we’ve had in the past two weeks. actually, in the newspaper this morning, there were stories about several collapses.

It makes me so happy that you took advantage of the 404 in this comic. Getting to comic #404 is a once in a lifetime experience. Unless you ever have a second comic that prominently displays the comic number, you only get one chance to make use of it. Congratulations on #404…. hey, where’d ya go? *talked too long*

You see, if Biff had a GPS with the coordinates for his workplace, he could get some snowshoes; or fishing pole, a leftover cheese tile, and a ravenous cheese-eating snowmobile monster; and totally make record time going over all the submerged highway dividers and ramping off parked cars or low roofs.

Alas, forethought has never been his strong suit. Of course, if the snow’s that deep, I’d skip work to make the most awesome snow fort ever. Totally worth it.

I live in houston. It has snowed twice in my lifetime. The most recent time it was not even past the sole of my shoes (but it occured on christmas eve). The other time it was almost up to my knees. Of course I was barely two years old…

Here just snow, if you get lucky, once in a couple of years, and when it happens, they just suspend classes with (sorry, I don’t understand that metric system) a few cms, XD…, well, last year it snowed, but wasn’t a surprise: it also snowed on Valparaiso (on the coast) and in the middle of nowhere around Copiapó (that is…, in the middle of the Atacama desert, XD)